Measuring Precipitation from Space: EURAINSAT and the Future

From the Table of Contents Contributors Acknowledgments Preface SECTION 1: Climate monitoring.- SECTION 2: Cloud studies in support of satellite rainfall measurements.- SECTION 3: Rainfall algorithms.- SECTION 4: Blended techniques.- SECTION 5: Validating satellite rainfall measurements.- SECTION 6: Modeling precipitation processes and data assimilation for NWP.- SECTION 7: Applications to monitoring weather events.- SECTION 8: The present and future of satellite platforms.- List of acronyms.- List of symbols and functions.